- When he lived in Italy he made money dubbing spaghetti westerns into English.
- As an amateur boxer he had his nose broken four times.
- Good friends with Ed Harris.
- Had one son, Django.
- Was a boxer.
- Chosen by Action Film magazine as one of the 10 Top Action Film Stars (#9). [1990]
- He was the son of Juanita Iown (Flemister) and Fred Frazier Ward. He had English, and smaller amounts of Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, and Welsh, ancestry. He was also said to have Cherokee roots.
- Lived in Venice, California.
- He appeared in seven films that were nominated for an Oscar, The Right Stuff (1983), Silkwood (1983), Swing Shift (1984), Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), Henry & June (1990), The Player (1992) and Short Cuts (1993), though he never received an Oscar nomination himself.
- Loved France and traveled there often.
- He almost never went by his full first name "Frederick", he was called "Freddie" when he was young, and went by "Fred" as he got older.
- Is an idol to singer Julian Thome.
- Filming for one episode of the 3rd season of Grey's Anatomy (2005). (2006)
- He appeared in 3 films whose title contains a US state, Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Florida Straits (1986) and The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988).
- No relation to Burt or Megan Ward, despite a popular misconception.
- Born on exactly the same date as Michael Nesmith of The Monkees (1965).
- Filming for Feast of Love (2007). (August 2006)
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